: : Lemma // J Platt + M Bohrer

lem · ma

// M Bohrer

assumed definitions— unproven theorem of proof.

taking annotations, making them mine.

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ten · sion

stretching with strain— points of tightness and pressure, caught in equilibrium. 
  
physical stresses— anxiety and force, minds fraught amongst fixed positions. 

in · between · ness

spaces often overlooked— times passing through,  translation of a medium. 
  
sitting in between chairs— not at home anywhere, entangled here and there. 

trans · lation

 moving media— displaced minds and memories,  carrying meaning across customs and cultures. 
 
split personalities, learning something, to leave it behind.

noth · ing · ness

void— thought divides action. 
 
blank dormancy. 
 
converging insignificant space, with valueless time. 

 

an · y · where

in, at, to here. 
 
near, close, by me. 

no · where

antonym any- where. 
 
a hidden twin or sister. 
be · ing
fundamental existence. 
 
singularity. the loneliness of (celestial or gravitational) infinity. 

rem · nant

rejected remainders— 
 
trapped, silver disillusionment. 

frag · ment

further breaking incomplete realities. 
 
divorcing X, eternally linked origins. 

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Eve. Digital Photograph. J Platt.

word

human sound— Kharon’s charge. 
 
sense all things, murdering objects. 

bod · y

mortal coil— organizing structures around a vacuum. 
 
amassing corpses. 

lan · guage

being human— twisting expression. communicating between conventions and structures. 
 
of taking things, converting objects forcing them into our world. 
 

self

ego, mind, spirit— object’s subjects, essentialness, tangible nothingness. 
 
Mrs. Ramsey’s wedge-shaped, core of darkness. 

e · go

metaphysical i. reaching for black matter— beyond vanity. 
 
 
mind

thought cauldron, remembrance of a past. 
 
warning spirit, insanity and mania. 
 
 
spir · it  

force, your breathing soul

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wor · ry

worn anxiety. 
 
teeth snap, wearily strangling, harass (your) intellect. 
 
  
sor · row  

guilt of grieving— 
 
maroon colored remorse, distressed worry. 
 
  
pain

screeching tear, reverse entropy. 
 
fearing penalty. 
 
the ache in the wrist in February.

 

fear

simultaneous debunking inspiration. 
 
impossibility of answers, force of a vacuum. 
 
 
 hurt

tar wounds— 
 
see (striking, endless) pain. 
  
bombs at Ludwig-Maximilian-University,  reminders in a brick wall. 

 

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No Access to the Void. Digital Photograph. J Platt. 

wait

sit silently, 
observe patience, pace with preoccupation.  
 
time by external forces. 
 

stand · still

stillstand

screeching glaciers to a halt, lights stop flickering.

motionless.

complete calm- emergency.

leave

remain, in awayness. 
 
breaking your heart, without looking back. write formalizing beliefs. marking life, eternally. 

 

pa · tience

suffering, endlessly deferred. 
 
tolerating silence— blood seeping into concrete. 

whis · per

transmuting stillness. 
 
steel whistling— stabbing sensual sharpness

pass

departing death lost in purgatory. 
 
interpunct of living, the aftermath of entanglement

mourn

veiled memories. 
 
monopole of darkness, mindless inertness. 
 
seven years of waking sorely, no dent in our pillows. 

 

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Massive Halo Object. Digital Photograph. J Platt.

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